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What Is God’s Name? – Re-Release in Honor of Michael Heiser

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The Name of the King

Timothy Stanley: Is this unique in Hebrew thought? This way of talking about someone's name? You know, I don't think we could say something like this is unique. We do have the use of the name of a deity in other places to sort of represent, you know, to take the place of the deity's presence. So it's not sort of a whole cloth invention on Israel's part. It would have been familiar to others who would have heard Israelites talking about this or talking this way. And so it had to be treated as holy in the very heart of Israel's worship to call on the name was equivalent to true worship of the one true God.

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